Chapter 1758 — A Strange Turn of Events, Part One
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But Gu Mengyao seemed deaf to her. Her eyes appeared to be closed, as though she were asleep, and her every movement was that of a sleepwalker!
Shen Yushu caught Tang Zhi's cry of alarm and came running out at a clip. At the sight of Gu Mengyao's strange behavior she gave a cry of her own: "Sister Yaoyao, what are you doing?"
Gu Mengyao did not stop at Shen Yushu's words; she kept cramming that whole black phoenix into her mouth!
"I'm going to stop her!" Shen Yushu made to rush in and restrain Gu Mengyao, but Tang Zhi caught her by the arm.
"Xiaoshu, go find Wei Zhao, quick! Yaoyao seems to be sleepwalking. I've heard you mustn't wake a sleepwalker abruptly—it can do them harm..." Tang Zhi seemed to recall reading something about sleepwalking in some book or other, and so she said this.
"All right, I'll go find Wei Zhao!" Xiaoshu nodded and ran quickly to the door of Wei Zhao's room. She meant to knock, then hesitated: Wei Zhao had said he was off to cultivate—would knocking disturb him?
"Xiaoshu? Is something the matter?" Though Wei Zhao was cultivating, he kept constant watch on the goings-on outside his door. The Mad Horse Gang men had gone, and the odds of their coming back to make trouble for him were minuscule, but by the principle that care brings no great error, he had never dared let his guard down.
Yet what Wei Zhao had not seen was any approach by the Mad Horse Gang; what he heard was Xiaoshu's footsteps.
Wei Zhao's ears were keen beyond the ordinary. If he listened closely, he could tell apart the footsteps of those close to him—especially a walk like Xiaoshu's.
"Brother Shield, trouble! Sister Yaoyao's trying to hog it all for herself!" Hearing Wei Zhao's voice, Shen Yushu pushed the door open and hurried in.
"Hog it all? What do you mean?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback.
"Just come and see for yourself!" Shen Yushu seized him by the arm and dragged him out.
Puzzled as he was, Wei Zhao followed Shen Yushu out of the room and into the one next door, and the moment he stepped inside he too was stunned by the sight before him!
Gu Mengyao was in the act of swallowing the entire black phoenix, and at the very instant Wei Zhao entered, she gulped the whole of it down!
Wei Zhao was struck dumb; Shen Yushu was struck dumb; Tang Zhi had been horrified all along, yet dared not rashly intervene.
It was hard for any of them to imagine how Gu Mengyao could swallow a black phoenix that size—were her mouth and her stomach truly that big? But the facts lay right before their eyes, and Wei Zhao had no choice but to believe them!
"Yaoyao?" Wei Zhao tried calling to her, but Gu Mengyao paid no heed. Her eyes still shut, she seemed to be digesting the black phoenix; she stood there without a stir.
Wei Zhao, too, was at a loss what to do before this bizarre scene, and could only stand where he was and watch.
After a while, Gu Mengyao's tightly shut eyes suddenly opened. But her gaze was utterly clear, as though she had not seen anyone in the room at all. She turned her head and fixed her eyes intently on a single direction, and a trace of gold flashed through her eyes; then a golden radiance broke from her whole body and hung behind her, seeming to form a pair of golden wings that blazed with a light that stung the eye...